Driver Victor Kirby had a memorable 44th birthday Monday at Harrington Raceway, winning four races on the 12-race program.
Kirby got it started in the $10,000 sub-feature, as Janet Hudson and trainer Joann Looney-King's Little Ben ($10, Kirby) scored a 1:52.2 victory. Kirby scored again with Gallic Beach ($3.60), when he recorded a 1:53.2 win on the undercard in an $11,000 conditioned pace with a front-end score for trainer John Wilkerson.
Kirby later piloted Western Rocker ($5.80) and Real Tough ($4.40) to victory for the grand slam.
Howard Taylor, Robert Cooper Stables, Abraham Basen and Thomas Lazzaro's Arque Hanover ($2.40, Jon Roberts) had a successful local debut with a 1:52.1 win in the $15,000 Open Pace feature.
Recently acquired for new connections and trainer Dylan Davis, the four-year-old Rock N Roll Heaven stallion has two wins in three starts for his new stable.
The 1-5 favourite, Arque Hanover left the gate from post position four and seized the early lead from Framed Art through an opening quarter mile time in :28.1 seconds. Not much changed to the half-mile in :57.3 and three-quarters in 1:25.1, before Arque Hanover opened up on the field with an open length victory over Framed Art and Singing Saint.
Tony Morgan had a driving triple.
(Harrington Raceway)